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Eusebius adds the information below to boost his argument about
the genealogy records that were kept by the ancient Jews.
For the relatives of our Lord according to the
flesh, whether with the desire of boasting or simply wishing to
state the fact, in either case truly, have banded down the following
account: Some Idumean robbers, having attacked Ascalon, a city of
Palestine, carried away from a temple of Apollo which stood near the
walls, in addition to other booty, Antipater, son of a certain
temple slave named Herod. And since the priest was not able to pay
the ransom for his son, Antipater was brought up in the customs of
the Idumeans, and afterward was befriended by Hyrcanus, the high
priest of the Jews. And having, been sent by Hyrcanus on an embassy
to Pompey, and having restored to him the kingdom which had been
invaded by his brother Aristobulus, he had the good fortune to be
named procurator of Palestine. But Antipater having been slain by
those who were envious of his great good fortune was succeeded by
his son Herod, who was afterward, by a decree of the senate, made
King of the Jews under Antony and Augustus. His sons were Herod and
the other tetrarchs. These accounts agree also with those of the
Greeks.